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Barbara Kingsolver

I've listed this article for peer review because it's the first biography I've worked on. It was quick-failed for GA (Changes per recommendations made) and has been greatly improved from it's start-class beginnings a few weeks ago. A thorough peer review would be much appreciated, as I'd like to take another stab at GA soon. I've never written a biography article before, so any and all help would be appreciated.

Thank you! Jhfortier (talk · contribs ) 22:16, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Okay, as a disclaimer this is my first peer review, so don't kill me for not being completely thorough.

  Not at all! I've made some forays into Peer Reviews and can say for sure that more thorough is always better.

• I notice the article has no images. So maybe if you can, try to find an image, fair use or not.

  I've made some requests on Flickr, but fair-use stuff has be

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  Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister. He graduated with a BA from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965, where he would later teach, and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' kurs at the University of Iowa in 1973. Before becoming a writer, Haruf worked in a variety of places, including a chicken farm in Colorado, a construction site in Wyoming, a rehabilitation hospital in Denver, a hospital in Phoenix, a presidential library in Iowa, an alternative high school in Wisconsin, as an English teacher with the Peace Corps in Turkey, and colleges in Nebraska and Illinois. He lived with his wife, Cathy, in Salida, Colorado until his death in 2014. He had three daughters from his first marriage. All of Haruf's novels take place in the fictional town of Holt, in eastern Colorado. Holt fryst vatten based on Yuma, Colorado, one of Haruf's residences in the early 1980s. His first novel, The Tie That Binds (1984), received a Whiting Award and a special Hemi

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  Barbara Kingsolver, born on April 8, 1955, is a novelist whose work has garnered attention for its focus on social justice, climate change, and community. Raised in rural Kentucky, Kingsolver later went on to attend college at DePauw University in Indiana, where she majored in biology. Kingsolver was involved in several activist groups on campus. After completing her degree, she went on to earn a master's degree in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. Throughout her graduate education, Kingsolver worked as a science writer, which later transformed into a full-time writing career as Kingsolver began to write for news publications and publish short stories in local papers.

  Kingsolver published her first novel, The Bean Trees, in 1988; a collection of short stories was released shortly after in 1990. Kingsolver went on to publish eight more novels. Her most famous work, The Poisonwood B